忙

See also 忘

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

忙 (radical 61 心+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心卜女 (PYV), four-corner 9001₀, composition ⿰忄亡)

1. busy, pressed for time
2. hustling

References

• KangXi: page 377, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10334
• Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2272, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5FD9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

忙 (Yale mong4)

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Japanese

Kanji

忙 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぼう (bō), もう (mō)
• Kun: いそがしい (isogashii)

Compounds

多忙 (たぼう, tabō)

忙殺 (ぼうさつ, bōsatsu)

忙中閑 (ぼうちゅうかん, bōchūkan)

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Korean

Hanja

忙 (hangeul 망, revised mang, McCune-Reischauer mang, Yale mang)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
忙

Hanzi

忙 (pinyin máng (mang2), Wade-Giles mang²)

Etymology

• 忄 / 心 xīn ("heart" radical) + 亡 wáng (phonetic).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

忙 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin máng)

1. busy

   你最近忙嗎？ (trad.)

   你最近忙吗？ (simp.)

   nǐ zuìjìn máng ma?

   Have you been busy lately?

Verb

忙 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin máng)

1. to be busy with something

   我最近忙著考試。 (trad.)

   我最近忙着考试。 (simp.)

   wǒ zuìjìn mángzhe kǎoshì

   I've been busy with exams as of late.

References

• 2007, Jiequn Li; Jieming Li, Yong'an Gao, Junying Ma, Jian Leng, C.L. Shannon, Pingchao Gu, Andrew Gluckman, Popular Chinese Expressions (流行汉语), edition Latest (in English/Mandarin), Beijing: Sinolingua, ISBN 978-7-80200-100-8:

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Vietnamese

Han character

忙 (mang, màng, mường)